The Guardian
A Coast Guard rescuer, Ben Randall, is assigned an official job as a trainer at the UCLA Training Facility after the death of his entire crew, and his wife wants a divorce. Ben will discover that a man named Jake has great potentials around that area but his past seems troubled. Ben tries to get closer to Jake's lessons to give him many tips in life and love and maybe make him someone else who does not mean anything to him.
14 February 1978, Patterson, Louisiana, USA
19 January 1958, Hollywood, California, USA
July 21, 1996
9 June 1978, USA
3 June 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 May 1975, Toms River, New Jersey, USA
7 February 1978, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
21 August 1939, Minden, Louisiana, USA
14 December 1981, Oakland, California, USA
9 January 1974, Savannah, Georgia, USA
30 January 1978, Petoskey, Michigan, USA
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December 07, 2007
There is a breadth of quality about the acting, including a fine performance from Sela Ward as Ben's estranged wife - making a lot more of her role than her meagre scripting suggests.September 29, 2006
Kutcher may soon be ready to anchor a Hollywood sea voyage. But for now, he's still a touch out of his depth.September 29, 2006
Costner is suitably Costneresque -- that is, low-key, stoic, and capable of a wry turn here or there.September 16, 2007
Overly bloated action drama that is predictable and drawn out.March 22, 2011
There's nothing particularly wrong with it, it's just very tedious. Originality doesn't seem to be important and maybe it doesn't have to be as The Guardian is dealing with something true but what that something is the filmmakers seem to know.September 29, 2006
Kutcher and Costner have a kind of visual chemistry that's just as elusive as the other kind. And the connection and contrast between them remind us that Hollywood isn't as forgiving of older male actors as we like to think.September 29, 2006
The Guardian does the job required: nothing more, nothing less, and nothing fancy.April 25, 2009
"The Guardian" is a pro-military propaganda movie from Hollywood that attempts to mask its agenda behind the life-saving rhetoric of Coast Guard rescue swimmers.March 15, 2007
The Guardian isn't as boring as Annapolis and SWAT, but it's still a feature-length training montage about kids learning the importance of taking it to the limit.September 29, 2006
The Guardian has the feel of a Sunday feature in a newspaper more than a drama.March 24, 2007
Will definitely rescue some moviegoers from the post-summer doldrums, but someone should have told Davis that there's going to be casualities if he leaves audiences in the water that long.September 29, 2006
Little about The Guardian will surprise anyone from one scene to the next, though the ride is hardly unpleasant and the story is generous in scope.